Begnagh

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Begnagh, from 160 m² to 565,040 m² (56.5 ha, 139.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Begnagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  change of design of dwelling house, from that granted under planning permission ref: 22/25 and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2352

• 15 Feb 2022Conditional

  to re-locate dwelling house, sewerage system and a treatment plant and alterations to site boundaries from that granted under planning permission ref: 21/260 and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2225

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house, provide a sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21260

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  1) construct a 5 bay portal frame feed/hay store 2) demolish existing galvanised grain bin, along with adjacent 3 bay shed with lean-to 3) to construct a 4 bay machinery storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18274

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF013-079 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Begnagh Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Currently out of use. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Rendered finish over rubble stone construction with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Rendered finish over rubble stone construction to parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to west bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Located to the south of Cloondara.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Begnagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Begnagh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Begnagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Begnagh · Boigneach

Area

1,825,086 m² (182.51 ha, 450.99 acres)

Civil parish

Killashee, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Killashee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

487 people lived in 185 households in the Killashee electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnagore, Ballycore, Clogher and Rinn, Cloonmore, Corragarrow, Slieve

Placenames

Begnagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.